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WASHINGTON (Reuters) — It was a turning point in the history of life on Earth. An asteroid an estimated 10-15 kilometers wide slammed into Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula 66 million years ago, triggering a global cataclysm that eradicated about three-quarters of the world’s species and ended the age of d...